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Get transported to a new spatial reality in METZ’s official video for “Cellophane”

GET TRANPORTED TO A NEW SPATIAL REALITY IN METZ’S OFFICIAL VIDEO FOR “CELLOPHANE” Watch it here New album Strange Peace out now on Sub Pop via Inertia Music

“They shift away from all-out abrasion, adding colour to their eruptions.”
Pitchfork

“METZ will melt your goddamn face off with their new LP…
One the the best bands in the world.”
The Brag

“[METZ] haven’t changed, the world around them has… Strange Peace
is cathartic rather than hopeless — an exorcism of nervous energy
at a time when it’s direly needed.”
NPR

“[METZ] have an uncanny knack for capturing lightning in a bottle.”
Under The Radar

METZ have delivered a new video for their debut single “Cellophane”. As described by director Shayne Ehman, the visual depicts a sphere where “consciousness is split, and a world of contrast unfolds. The resulting disembodiment disperses one’s spatial awareness and new kinds of empathy develop. Two become three, and it’s only half the story.”

As previously shared, NPR Music is streaming METZ’s Strange Peace in its entirety via “First Listen” last week. NPR Music’s Jason Heller says of Strange Peace, “Recorded with Shellac‘s mastermind Steve Albini, ‘Strange Peace’ is an album that doesn’t need to be explicitly political to make a statement about our current chaotic climate. The opening track, “Mess of Wires“, gallops out of the gate like a malfunctioning industrial robot, a tangle of mechanical riffs and Edkins’ oddly infectious chants. The band’s ability to inject melody into the weirdest of places is most striking on “Cellophane”. Slightly more laidback than the usual METZ song, it’s closer to a garage-rock anthem than a skin-peeling punk rager, and Edkins’ refrain of ‘How will I know? / How will I know?’ is designed to lodge itself in the brain of the listener like some insidious implant….cathartic rather than hopeless — an exorcism of nervous energy at a time when it’s direly needed.”

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Strange Peace

1. Mess of Wires
2. Drained Lake
3. Cellophane
4. Caterpillar
5. Lost in the Blank City
6. Mr. Plague
7. Sink
8. Common Trash
9. Escalator Teeth
10. Dig a Hole
11. Raw Materials

Strange Peace by METZ is out now on Sub Pop via Inertia Music
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September 25, 2017 0 comment

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Out Now!! METZ Strange Peace

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METZ today release Strange Peace, an emphatic but artful hammer swing to the status quo and their highly-anticipated third full-length album. Recorded live off the floor to tape with the legendary Steve Albini, the album is a distinct artistic maturation into new and alarming territory, frantically pushing past where the band has gone before, while capturing the notorious intensity of METZ’s live show.

“[METZ] have an uncanny knack for capturing lightning in a bottle.“
Under The Radar

Out now on Sub Pop via Inertia Music

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September 25, 2017 0 comment

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METZ share potent new track “Mess of Wires”

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METZ SHARE POTENT NEW TRACK “MESS OF WIRES” New album Strange Peace out Friday September 22 on Sub Pop via Inertia Music

“Mess of Wires” is the latest and arguably greatest song to be released from METZ’s forthcoming album Strange Peace out September 22 on Sub Pop via Inertia Music. Zane Lowe gave the song its World First premiere on his Beats 1 show earlier today.

As described by METZ frontman, Alex Edkins, “Mess of Wires” is “a reminder to myself to speak out and say what I believe. To be honest with myself. It is common to feel that your thoughts are inconsequential, a drop in the echo-chamber, but silence can be worse. Speak out about what you believe in, loud and often. In the spirit of this song, I want to strongly condemn the violent and hateful actions of the white-supremacists and neo-nazis in Charlottesville, VA. this past week. Their vile attempts to incite division and fear through intimidation and violence have no place in this world.”

Edkins (guitar, vocals), Hayden Menzies (drums), and Chris Slorach (bass) recorded Strange Peace at Electrical Audio in Chicago, live off the floor to tape with Steve Albini. The result is a distinct artistic maturation into new and alarming territory, frantically pushing past where the band has gone before, while capturing the notorious intensity of their live show. The trio continued to assemble the album (including home recordings, additional instrumentation) back at home in Toronto, adding the finishing touches with longtime collaborator, engineer and mixer, Graham Walsh.

“The songs on ‘Strange Peace’ are about uncertainty,” Edkins explains. “They’re about recognising that we’re not always in control of our own fate, and about admitting our mistakes and fears. They’re about finding some semblance of peace within the chaos.”

Read the full bio for Strange Peace below.

METZ Strange Peace

1. Mess of Wires
2. Drained Lake
3. Cellophane
4. Caterpillar
5. Lost in the Blank City
6. Mr. Plague
7. Sink
8. Common Trash
9. Escalator Teeth
10. Dig a Hole
11. Raw Materials

Strange Peace by METZ is out Friday September 22 on Sub Pop via Inertia Music
Pre-order now: https://Inertia.lnk.to/StrangePeace

More on METZ’s Strange Peace

Since releasing their self-titled debut record in 2012, which The New Yorker called, “One of the year’s best albums…a punishing, noisy, exhilarating thing,” the Toronto-based three-piece METZhave garnered international acclaim as one of the most electrifying and forceful live acts, touring widely and extensively, playing hundreds of shows each year around the world.

Now, Alex Edkins (guitar, vocals), along with Hayden Menzies (drums), and Chris Slorach(bass) are set to unleash their highly-anticipated third full-length album, Strange Peace, an emphatic but artful hammer swing to the status quo.

“The best punk isn’t an assault as much as it’s a challenge — to what’s normal, to what’s comfortable, or simply to what’s expected. Teetering on the edge of perpetual implosion,” NPRwrote in their glowing review of METZ’s 2015 second album, II.

Strange Peace was recorded in Chicago, live off the floor to tape with Steve Albini. The result is a distinct artistic maturation into new and alarming territory, frantically pushing past where the band has gone before, while capturing the notorious intensity of their live show.

“Recording in Chicago was a blast. We tracked fourteen songs in four days. It was the first time we felt confident enough to just play live and roll tape,” Edkins said of the recording process. “Strange Peace is much more diverse and varied than anything we’ve done before, which was exhilarating, but terrifying, too. We took the tapes home to Toronto feeling like we’d made the record we wanted to make.”

The trio continued to assemble the album (including home recordings, additional instrumentation) back in their hometown, adding the finishing touches with longtime collaborator, engineer and mixer, Graham Walsh.

From the ferocious opening track, “Mess of Wires”, we’re met by the sheer force and fierce musicianship we’ve come to expect from METZ. With the unhinged, post-punk fragments of “Drained Lake”, and the whirling, acerbic pop features of “Cellophane“, the band’s hectic progression becomes clear. But Strange Peace isn’t merely a collection of eleven uninhibited and urgent songs. It’s also a kind of sonic venting, a truculent social commentary that bludgeons and provokes, excites and unsettles.

“The songs on ‘Strange Peace’ are about uncertainty,” Edkins explains. “They’re about recognizing that we’re not always in control of our own fate, and about admitting our mistakes and fears. They’re about finding some semblance of peace within the chaos.”

With all the pleasurable tension and anxiety of a fever dream, Strange Peace is equal parts challenging and accessible. It is this implausible balancing act, moving from one end of the musical spectrum to the other, that only a band of METZ’s power and capacity can maintain: discordant and melodic, powerful and controlled, meticulous and instinctive, subtle and complex, precise and reckless, wholehearted and merciless, brutal and optimistic, terrifying and fun.

“Their whiplash of distortion is made with precision, a contained chaos. But you would never talk about them like that. Because METZ are not something you study or analyze,” wrote Liisa Ladouceur in Exclaim! “They are something you feel: a transfer of energy, pure and simple.”

In other words: to feel something, fiercely and intensely, but together, not alone.

August 25, 2017 0 comment

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METZ to release their ferocious third album ‘Strange Peace’; Listen to “Strange Peace”

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METZ will release Strange Peace, an emphatic but artful hammer swing to the status quo and their highly-anticipated third full-length album, on Friday September 22 on Sub Pop via Inertia Music. To celebrate this announce METZ have revealed the first single off the album “Cellophane“.

Alex Edkins (guitar, vocals), Hayden Menzies (drums), and Chris Slorach (bass) recorded at Electrical Audio in Chicago, live off the floor to tape with Steve Albini. The result is a distinct artistic maturation into new and alarming territory, frantically pushing past where the band has gone before, while capturing the notorious intensity of their live show. The trio continued to assemble the album (including home recordings, additional instrumentation) back at home in Toronto, adding the finishing touches with longtime collaborator, engineer and mixer, Graham Walsh.

Read the full bio for Strange Peace below.

Strange Peace by METZ is out Friday September 22 on Sub Pop via Inertia Music
Pre-order now: https://Inertia.lnk.to/StrangePeace